Suny picks up the nearest thing... (Oh wait, that would be the moving arm, right?)... and proceeds to swing it wildly, but with determined enthusiasm plus extra gusto, at the toothy things arrainged before her.

(To grab the thing.. Which is good because the thing also wants to grab Suny. Yay for the thing bein' all helpful!)

((Technically, you need to combo to get that fancy, but I was going to let you keep the 3 you rolled before battle so you could combo with the 1. Pretend the above rolls are in reverse order and it works out.

'Lite hears the screams again. Sounds like something truly amiss is happening at the temple. She raises from her sunning rock, picks up her gleaming bronze axe and bounds towards the temple on the hill (it was on a hill wasn't it?). At the top, she halts and adjusts her armor. Ya know, someone should really invent something to keep all these wobbly bits from bouncing around so when I run....

Another, scream... She springs forward. At the door, she pauses to kick it in, but sees it is made of....paper? Huh? No time, she barrels through...

An arms off? Blood being spattered, a rotund toothy...A sea creature with the same type of weapon as the one in the lagoon? Many of them. Must be a Poseidonites...sick fish creatures.

'Lite gives her fearsome war cry, Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!

And hurls her bronze axe at whichever one looks like he could use it most, and then leaps forward to attack...

Wynry hears the screams coming from the temple, and flies in close behind Xenalite. Wynry is momentarily bewildered by the scene. Shattered paper(?) walls, blood everywhere, Beach Bum and Spider Girl attacking troll-like creatures (is that a severed arm she's using?). She gathers her dust and casts it into the eyes of the attacking creatures to blind them.

Our heroines rush in to attack, Einin whipping a rock into the fray—killing two demons with one stone!

Spinette tears an arm off, and a leg, and an eye, and keeps tearing until she rips out two vital organs, neither from the same demon.

Xenalite barrels through the paper door and hurls her axe. A demon falls over with the axe embedded in his face. Others rush over the fallen foe, meaning the Amazon will need to fight with her bare hands for now. (Which will not be a problem for her.)

Fairy dust blinds three of the demons. Two hold their attacks, but the one nearest to Suny takes a swing, sawing the horn off a fellow demon. Four others who were about to attack Suny converge on the blind fool and beat him to death.

The one-armed woman rises, her arm still connected to her by weird stringy meat. She tries to suck it back into her shoulder, only Suny rips it off its string, and swings it at her enemies. The fingernails rake black streaks through the air and rip demonic bodies open! Four demons fall, black blood gushing from wide open wounds.

Shino's face doesn't look so pretty as when she entered the temple. In addition to being bloody and disheveled, her eyes glow purple, her teeth are long, pointy and yellow, and the corners of her mouth stretch almost to her ear lobes. She looks straight at Suny, and the veins on her neck and forehead bulge as her mouth opens impossibly wide—emitting a horrible high frequency shriek that only Suny can hear!

Wynry is safely out of reach of the melee, but she does see a demon break through the outer wall of the temple's second floor! Broken boards, a three-limbed demon and a severed demon-arm fall towards the fairy!

Defense? There is no defense, there are only the drums, and the amazon way. 'Lite knows what the drums are for. Deflect with one bracer, pound with the other....she's trained far too many times not to know...Amazons always train.

She lets their blows glance off her bracers while she drives in with fist and knee...

Knee driving up...
Elbow smashing in...

Whose temple is this? With paper walls, and shadowy toads lurking about? Only a temple for the damned she thinks. The damned, and those who need a quick trip back to Hades.

Wynry sees the demon and assorted debris falling from the second floor and attempts to get out of its path.

She deftly dodges, and looks up, seeing the encircled shrine maiden. Is she the same one from the beach, or...?

No time! Wynry might be the only one in a position to save her. Not checking to see if the demon survived its fall, she leaves it for the others to deal with and flies up to the second floor. She draws her bow, hoping to get a shot in on the others before they notice her, or at least divert their attention.

Our heroines continue their brutal attack—Spinette delivering an agonizing death to the demon foolish enough to charge her head on.

Einin swoops about, delivering deadly talon strikes to seven, and kicking an eighth in the gut, talons puncturing flesh and internal organs. As the demon writhes on the floor, his chainsaw naginata tips over and splashes the brains of a ninth demon over one of the lanterns, sniffing its flame.

Xenalite knee bashes a groin, elbow smashes a skull, sends teeth flying, and continues her attacks until she is surrounded by three corpses with concave skulls, two with internalized male genitalia, two mostly-toothless corpses, and seven samurai weapons with buzzing blades—six chainsaw katanas and one chainsaw nodachi. She is free to pick up one of the blades, or not bother since her entire body is a weapon.

Shino's shriek seems to suck the air out of the room, or at least the part where Suny stands.
The purple-eyed woman starts to change—tan legs growing longer, lankier, hair fading, starting to resemble a blonde mop... but in spite of Suny failing to resist, the spell fails to drain her life force. Within seconds, the banshee-shriek becomes audible to all, as a masculine moan. Our heroines no longer see a feminine form in Shino's robe. The purple-eyed creature is now a six-foot-tall, pasty-pale, yellow-bearded, pot-bellied oni wearing a porcelain masquerade mask.

"You waste your time defending the maiden," he says in a well-mannered baritone. "My boys will not kill her. We will simply pluck out her eyes, and," with a glance at his bloody, armless sleeve, he adds, "perhaps saw off a limb or three for her audacity."

The arm Suny wields as a weapon is now that of a tall, pasty white devil. It's a surprisingly effective weapon (and is not the severed limb of a friendly innocent), so Suny continues to lash out with the arm's deadly claw. Perhaps she intends to strike the devilish oni shape-shifter, but three oni grunts get in her way. Suny tears through them!

The devil then turns his armless shoulder toward Xenalite. Blood bubbles out, forming squid arms, then clots and solidifies into a strange red-black appendage—longer and thicker than his actual arm. The end spreads open, forming a shape like open palm with long wormy fingers. A bloody net is launched straight at Xenalite!

Upstairs, Wynry sees a beautiful shrine maiden—silk clothes torn in places, a cut on her leg, but limbs intact and swift enough to parry her foes' hellish blades.
She slaps a naginata out of one demon's hand, then grabs the arm with both hands and pulls—ripping his arm from the shoulder socket!
As she beats the oni to death with his own arm, the fairy gets a good look at her face.

It's Shino!

Wynry wastes no time—acting as she would anyway for any innocent in need! Her arrow slices the jugular of one demon, then plants itself deeply in the eye socket of another. Both fall, lighting the room with an arterial spray aglow with dispersing fairy dust.

This takes some attention away from Shino! One demon throws his chainsaw katana while another two hurl a dead demon, and his weapon, and their own!

Einin's eyes narrow as the demon speaks, and widen as the swords of its minions burst into flame! She does her best to evade them--

--but once more her feathers smolder! With an owl-like hiss of pain and fury, she launches herself at the head demon -- or as close as she can get. Her talons are already bloody; at this point what's a little more?

Xenalite raises her bracer to deflect even as she realizes the breadth of the blow may still ensnare her. She has no choice but to absorb it.

Ensnared and wrapped about the arm, she pulls against the weight and strength of her opponent.

Foolish minion of the dark, she says. I am a daughter of Ares.

With a great and abrupt tug, she pulls the yellow bearded frog man towards her, and then bounds forward driving up her knee to clear away any of the sick thing's minions. When she lands, she expects to recover her axe.

If failure to defend would prevent any of you from attacking, I would tell you.

Click to expand...

So, you are saying you want us to roll defend and attack in the same turn?

'Lite lands, but the creature proves strong enough to pull her from the axe. She smashes her bracer into any demon foolish enough to be close by, and pulls against the long tentacle that still holds her.

Suny sems oblivious to the changes and carnage around her. The tanned nymph continues to spin, twirl and other wise flail about at the monsters around her.
Dancing about so's not to get all icky covered an stuffs: